Westward Expansion

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Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson Bought land from France, which doubled the size of the United States.

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Florida 1819

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Spain gave Florida to the United States through a treaty.

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Texas 1845

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Texas was added to the United States after it became an independent republic.

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Oregon 1846

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The Oregon Territory was divided by the United States and Great Britain.

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California 1848

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War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States.

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Manifest Destiny

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The idea that expansion was good for the country and was the right of the country.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean.

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Inventor

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A person who is the first to think of or make something.

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Entrepreneur

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A person who organizes resources to bring new or better goods and services to market in hope of making profit

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Cotton gin

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The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. It increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton.

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Steamboat

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The steamboat was improved by the entrepreneur Robert Fulton

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Steam Locomotive

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Provided faster land transportation.

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Reaper

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Jo Anderson (an enslaved African American) and Cyrus McCormick worked to invent the reaper.

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Abolitionist

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Men and women who work to end slavery.

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Emancipation

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The freeing from bondage

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Suffrage

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The right to vote in an election.

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Underground railroad

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Houses that would stowaway slave so people wont find them.

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Harriet Tubman

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Led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

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William LLoyd Garrison

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Wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans.

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Frederick Douglass

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Wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americas and women to better their lives.

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Isabella Sojourner Truth

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A former enslaved African American, was a nationally known advocate for equality and justice.

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Susan B. Anthony

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was an advocate to gain voting rights for woman and equal rights for all.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Played a leadership role in the woman's rights movement

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What basic rights were women deprived of?

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~The right to vote

~Educational opportunities

~Right to own property

~Equal opportunities in business